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		<title>Quilt Draws Controversy at Mancuso Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Kathy Nida of California designed a quilt intended to be a statement about homelessness, I wonder if she realized the brouhaha that would result when she exhibited the quilt at the Mancuso Quilt Show. Evidently, show organizer was focusing on her artist&#8217;s statement about the quilt and did not find the content, which included [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Artist&#8217;s Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the essence of art? What leads artists to create? How is art related to quilts? What makes textile art worth collecting personally or preserving in a museum? All of these are evocative questions. Many of them will need to be answered from your own perspective, based on your own experience. Before we consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art Quilts of Margaret Hunt &#8211; More Quilts With Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of sharing art quilts with words, Margaret Hunt of South Carolina sent a photo of her quilt with the words &#8220;high heels.&#8221; She often adds words to quilts. The statements here are her words. &#8220;High Heels&#8221; by Margaret Hunt She states: I made a bunch of postcards for the class I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still More Words on Quilts: Sarah Smith</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/09/02/still-more-words-on-quilts-sarah-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 17&#8243; x 19&#8243; quilt shown above is an example of a quilt that features a written poem on its surface. The poem was composed by a 4th grade student who happens to be the son of quilt artist, Sarah Smith of Maine. Ancient Earth by Eli Smith (copyrighted 2008) Tracks in the mud carry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Katrina Remembered with Quilt</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/08/25/hurricane-katrina-remembered-with-quilt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wendy L. Starn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Quilt made by Wendy L. Starn Artist&#8217;s Statement: &#8220;Although Katrina missed my part of the state and Rita did not leave much physical damage, both hurricanes had lasting effects on the entire state, both financially and emotionally. Scientists have linked rising global temperatures to increasingly violent storms. Who do we blame? The phrases in red [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet More Words on Fabrics and Quilts</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/08/25/yet-more-words-on-fabrics-and-quilts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Becky Wolsk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Becky Wolsk wrote to us today and sent some images of textiles to which she has added words! Being a writer and a quilter, it is a natural thing to do! Becky Wolsk is a writer who is based in Washington, D.C. She states that she &#8220;moonlights as a quilter and vice versa.&#8221; She reveals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of Molas &#8211; Here&#8217;s a Special One</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/11/07/speaking-of-molas-heres-a-special-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Campbell, a quilt designer and friend who lives in New Jersey, found a mola to purchase at a garage sale a few years ago. Like one of the molas in my collection, it is framed. This one is double-framed under glass and its new owner states that &#8220;it appears to float on the kitchen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Male Quilter Speaks Out in a Letter to the Editor</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/08/31/a-male-quilter-speaks-out-in-a-letter-to-the-editor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letter to the Editor Ma&#8217;am&#8211; I found your article, &#8220;The Value of your Quilt,&#8221; to be of interest. However, I could not help but notice that it had a decided leaning toward women as quilters. You did make a few references to the masculine pronoun, and I was happy for that as a male quilter. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Good Day When a Letter Arrives from Germany</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/08/31/its-a-good-day-when-a-letter-arrives-from-germany/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/08/31/its-a-good-day-when-a-letter-arrives-from-germany/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, a letter arrived from Germany from a friend I have never met, yet have known since the early 1990s. I have Quilter&#8217;s Newsletter magazine to thank for that connection. You see, they used to run a column by which quilters could write to others who were seeking penpals. I wrote to Tamara Shpolyanska, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Doesn&#8217;t Love Pumpkins? New Pumpkin Cookbook Features Amazing Art Quilts!</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/08/15/who-doesnt-love-pumpkins-new-pumpkin-cookbook-is-amazing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the cover of the new cookbook, Pumpkin, Pumpkin: Folklore, History, Planting Care, and Good Eating, just published by Anne Copeland of Lomita, California Truly, this is the most amazing cookbook I have ever seen! Throughout the 129 pages you&#8217;ll delight in the beautiful photos and art quilts, all related to pumpkins, shared by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design for your Personal Enjoyment</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/08/05/design-for-your-personal-enjoyment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Line drawing for Yum-Yum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Line drawing of &#8220;Yum-Yum,&#8221; a character in &#8220;The Mikado&#8221; operetta Yesterday, I posted the small quilt that I made, based on this antique design, so I thought you might like to compare and contrast to see how I worked with colors to create the effect. Feel free to re-create this design in your own choice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lecture Leaves Questions</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/06/03/lecture-leaves-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Amish Quilts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cheryl Savageau]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We rose early this morning, stopped for a quick breakfast, and then hit the turnpike for a long ride up to northern New Hampshire. The day was grand and we needed our sunglasses. Along the way, I spotted several wild turkeys, but today, there was no moose in sight, although we have seen them in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quilters&#8217; S.O.S. -Save Our Stories &#8211; Interviews 50 Quiltmakers about their Obama Quilts</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/05/02/quilters-sos-save-our-stories-interviews-50-quiltmakers-about-their-obama-quilts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 23:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Quilter's S.O.S. - Save Our Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release “Living the Dream,” by Diana Bracy Asheville, North Carolina, April 28, 2009 &#8211; More than 50 quiltmakers inspired by President Obama have been interviewed for Quilters&#8217; S.O.S. &#8211; Save Our Stories, an oral history project for the Alliance for American Quilts. Throughout the presidential campaign, Karen Musgrave, volunteer and co-chair [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All About the Lines</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/04/18/its-all-about-the-lines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, what do I mean by such a title for this blog? There were certainly no long waiting lines for the rest room, at the quilt show, as has been commemorated in a very funny quilt by Barbara Barber, a favorite humorous quilter from Rhode Island. No, what I am getting at is my general [...]]]></description>
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		<title>La Rosa Blanca</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/03/10/la-rosa-blanca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love making Crazy Quilt blocks! Being crazy isn&#8217;t a requirement, as I have always told my Crazy Quilt students, but it helps! The block you see above has a very coordinated look because I was working from a packet of designer fat quarters, a gift from Marcus Brothers for providing a quilting &#8220;tip&#8221; a [...]]]></description>
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